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He is sitting in Violas apartment and listening to classical music. Viola says that she has found the quote she wants to tell him about, and says," shut off the music". He doesn't —she gets mad and she shuts it off. He asks her why she isn't with Frank..what is their relationship? She says Frank is her hostage, and she keeps him as her hostage. He says why don't you divorce him. No, she says" even a hostage needs someplace to go..even if I'm not here, it’s a place for him to come to. Otherwise he would go under." Another night he comes in to see Frank who is drinking tall glasses of gin and is crying. Stig says I thought you were supposed to be on the wagon. He says he is listening to Kindertotenlieder by Mahler, and it is terribly sad so he is crying. Sig says toten—dead—dead children. Frank is angry—"I don't know German—it just sounds sad ..and sad is what I am." He shoves a newspaper at Stig. There is a picture of women, and a headline that nylon mania has hit the United States. Frank says" it will be here soon." Stig knows Franks business and he knows that Frank has bought huge lots of wool and silk because it was so cheap and has filled neighbors cellars that he has rented with the silk and wool, which is now going to be useless. Frank continues to drink wallowing in his feeling sorry for himself mood, and goes into a stupor. Stig tries to hold his head , and stroke his hair. Viola comes out of the bedroom, puts her hand through Stig's hair and beckons flirtatiously to Stig to come in the bedroom—She reappears shortly without her clothes. Sig goes in the bedroom, brings out a blanket, covers Frank lovingly and leaves the apartment. Now he is back in the classroom, writing on the blackboard behind Viola. She tells him to write something. He says he all ready wrote that. She is unbuttoning the bottom buttons of her skirt to excite him, as she tells him to write it again. She writes a note on her notebook and pushes it into his vision. It says the coast is clear and he should come by at 7:30. He glances at it, and asks to be excused to go to the bathroom. He leaves and runs into the girls gym where Lisbeth is in class. He hides in a big box used for broad jumping and looks at Lisbeth through a slat. He shoots her a note with his sling shot to come to the box. she jumps into the box and the box is slid out for the class to do their broad jumping with them in it. when the box is replaced in the storage room, and everyone leaves, they make love in the box and eventually emerge, laughing and joking. This is silly sex time for 15 year olds. Stig is very happy. News comes that his brother was killed in the submarine and he knows the grief of war. The relationship with Viola is not what he wants anymore and she is furious. She is violent. There is a terrible scene where she comes at him with a broken bottle, determined to cut him..maybe to kill him. In the end she announces that she is going to flunk him . He is not going to graduate as he has missed so much school, she cannot graduate him, she says. Also all the absences were without a note from home so that makes it worse. Contempt of school for unexcused absences. He is stunned. He will have to repeat the year. He begs of her..he was absent because he was in her apartment waiting for her to come between classes to have sex with him. He could not have excuse notes from home. what is she talking about? But "Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned," (the mourning bride..William Congreve 1697) And Viola we need to remember had no forgiveness
for her husbands one indiscretion. Her fury then made a hostage of him in a loveless marriage and while she didn't lead her husband to drink, she offered no help to rescue him from his self destruction and self hate. She was very beautiful, intelligent and perceptive—but it brought no great gifts of life to her for she could not really love. The last scene is graduation day. Zig's name is called. He is not dressed up as others are. He walks down the aisle to where his teacher stands. He stands still and slowly unbuttons his pants..and when unbuttoned just stares at her and walks out. This absorbing movie, is offered on YouTube so you can see it on your computer screen. It might be seen as a fanciful, "what if "story of oedipus. "What if "he didn't kill his father but saved him, and relinquished his mother. It is a sweet attempt to change the course of tragedy. that's one of the appeals of the movie—to show us our fantasies, and change the role of fate, so we can deny the harm this romance would have done to the boy that would not be so easily reversed. It's not Oedipus that is blinded—the attempt here is to blind the viewer to the original story. It's a story of redemption. The innocence and purity of Stig denies the role he has in his story—.a dream—freedom from responsibility. The divine music helps the seduction. It is interesting that Stig doesn't need to demand punishment for himself, but the punishing figure that demands payment is the woman..the mother. She is cruel to her husband and to her lover, and ends up alone.
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